Friday afternoon, school's out - time for the weekly meeting at our STEM club

The very improvised "proof of concept" was the starting line for trying out code, working first time with a LCD and generally getting a better grip of the project.

After school's out on Friday, we went to our afternoon STEM club to do some project word: check out SFN.berlin for more information about the background...

Our plan was to mount the Arcade Buttons and Joystick on multiplex wood plates for easier operation:

And it was great fun, woodworking in a normal classroom...

[But we did clean up afterwards ;-) ]

We mounted the buttons and joystick in place and then started preparing all the connections and finally got to solder the first cables...

And we had to solder the shields for easy attachment of the input devices to an Arduino, too:

And finally, we fastened the joystick - so we now have two input methods for the flexible keyboard that we can further work with...

After that - we had to stop for the day; it was Friday late afternoon and we had to leave - school would be locked down and the nice cleaning lady asked us kindly to leave, so she can do her job :-)

But we got our two "keyboards" to continue work :-)